"But I wish to point out that it is entirely wrong to say that the Chinese are not religious."

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"But I wish to point out that it is entirely wrong to say that the Chinese are not religious."

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"On July 26, 1916, I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I resolved to write no more poems in the classical language, and to begin my experiments in writing poetry in the so-called vulgar tongue of the people."

Friendship, Poetry, People, America, Friends

"Within my own life, I read all the beloved novels by lamps of vegetable oil; I saw the Standard Oil invading my own village, I saw gas lamps in the Chinese shops in Shanghai; and I saw their elimination by electric lights."

Life, Oil, Shops

"The rise of the dramas in the thirteenth century, and the rise of the great novels in a later period, together with their frank glorification of love and the joys of life, may be called the Third Renaissance."

Love, Life, May

"The Chinese people, too, went through all kinds of vicissitudes in their religious development."

People, Development, Religious

"In such diffused changes of culture two factors are necessary: contact and understanding."

Cultural, Culture, Understanding

"After learning the language and culture of the Chinese people, these Jesuits began to establish contacts with the young intellectuals of the country."

People, Country, Culture, Intellectuals

"And lastly, the political revolutions from 1911 to the present time have done more to bring about tremendous social changes everywhere than even the economic and industrial changes and the new schools."

Time, Present, Schools

"Another important historical factor is the fact that this already very simple religion was further simplified and purified by the early philosophers of ancient China. Our first great philosopher was a founder of naturalism; and our second great philosopher was an agnostic."

Religion, Fact, First

"Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility."

Truth, Responsibility, Sense

"On the basis of biological, sociological, and historical knowledge, we should recognize that the individual self is subject to death or decay, but the sum total of individual achievement, for better or worse, lives on in the immortality of The Larger."

Death, Knowledge, Achievement, Immortality

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"Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them."

H. L. Mencken, American Writer

Religion, Fact, Will

"It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods."

H. L. Mencken, American Writer

Religion, God, Gods, Universe

"Archbishop - A Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ."

H. L. Mencken, American Writer

Religion, Christian, Rank

"A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there."

H. L. Mencken, American Writer

Religion, Church, Gentlemen, Heaven, Will

"The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore."

H. L. Mencken, American Writer

Religion, God, Thought, Proof, Protestantism

"Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly."

H. L. Mencken, American Writer

Religion, Machine, Man

"The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already."

Edward Abbey, American Author

Religion, Missionaries

"Religion is not a conclusion of the reason."

Lyman Abbott, American Author

Religion, Reason

"No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state."

Felix Adler, German Educator

Religion, Church, Purity, State

"The candidate was required to prepare himself by confession, fasting, and passing the night in prayer."

Horatio Alger, American Author

Religion, Confession, Night, Prayer